Dreaming of a Joyful CS Classroom

This session takes the time to dream about what it would look like for a CS classroom to center inclusion and joy. As teachers, we want to accomplish this goal, but we can’t do it alone: it takes a community to understand and overcome the current obstacles to creating a joyful CS classroom. To do this, we’ll start by reviewing the latest academic research on justice and culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogies in CS education. Then we’ll examine and name...